This paper addresses objectivity in economics. It criticizes a closed science, "view from nowhere" conception of economics and defends an open science, "view from somewhere" conception of objective science. It ascribes the first conception to mainstream economics, associates it with its...

Purpose This paper explores the different open science policy effects on the knowledge generation process of researchers in basic sciences: biology, chemistry and physics. Design/methodology/approach This paper uses a qualitative methodology with a content analysis approach. It uses seventeen...

Organization theory is a paradoxical field of scientific inquiry. It has struggled for more than fifty years to develop a unified theory of organizational effectiveness under girded by a coherent set of assumptions, and it has thus far failed to produce one. Yet, by other standards it is...

Organization theory is a paradoxical field of scientific inquiry. It has struggled for more than fifty years to develop a unified theory of organizational effectiveness under girded by a coherent set of assumptions, and it has thus far failed to produce one. Yet, by other standards it is...